Public Works Appropriations for 1957: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, Civil Functions, Department of the Army, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 1360 pages |
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acre-feet acres additional Appropriations for fiscal Appropriations requested Appropriations to date Appropriations to June Balance to complete benefit-cost ratio benefits BERRIGAN BOLAND bridge budget Bureau of Reclamation canal Cash contributions channel Chief of Engineers Colonel PENNEY Colonel PERSON complete after fiscal Completion schedule construction contract Corps of Engineers Creek data Estimated Federal DEXHEIMER district drainage dredging Estimated Federal cost Estimated non-Federal cost estimated project cost EVINS facilities financial data Estimated fiscal year 1957 Fiscal year 1957.-The FLEMING FOGARTY Fort Gaines funds HARDIN HOEFFER information referred initial interests irrigation ITSCHNER JENSEN June 30 JUSTIFICATION kilowatts KIRWAN land levee Major GARRETT Meredosia miles million Mississippi River Missouri River Basin navigation North Dakota Ohio River operation and maintenance planning powerplant pumping plant RABAUT railroad referred to follows Relocations requested for fiscal SEEMAN spillway Summarized financial data TABER Tentative allocation tion Total estimated project unit waterway
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Page 598 - That we respectfully urge, request, and petition the Congress of the United States to take what actions are necessary to insure continuance of surveys and planning and assure cooperation in the construction of projects in the State of Kansas that are vital and necessary to the conservation of land and water by the three agencies, namely, the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 306 - War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 435 - State or local interests shall agree to pay for the cost of such provisions on the basis that all authorized purposes served by the project shall share equitably in the benefits of multiple purpose construction as determined by the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Interior as the case may be...
Page 594 - Act shall be expended on the construction of any project until States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agencies have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States...
Page 472 - TBX. (Continuing) Location. — In Comal County, Tex., on the Guadalupe River, 303 miles above its mouth and 12 airline miles northwest of New Braunfels, Tex. Authorization. — 1945 River and Harbor Act as modified by the Flood Control Act of 1954. Benefit-cost ratio.
Page 324 - States, all rights of way for levee foundations and levees on the main stem of the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, Missouri and the Head of Passes.
Page 583 - Local interests are required to provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the projects, hold and save the United States free from damages due to construction of the works, and maintain and operate all the works after completion.
Page 550 - That the Secretary of War is authorized to make contracts with States, municipalities, private concerns, or individuals, at such prices and on such terms as he may deem reasonable, for domestic and industrial uses for surplus water that may be available at any reservoir under the control of the War Department: Provided, That no contracts for such water shall adversely affect then existing lawful uses of such water.
Page 365 - ... upon the transmission of power, but would have power near their project. That, of course, as you know, was recommended as the beginning of the Ice Harbor project of the Army engineers as an alternative solution for the supply picture there. Now, you pointed out that there may be another alternative. I do not want to be in the position of saying that this is the only thing that can be done.
Page 349 - Of the 50-squaremile area in Jefferson Parish lying between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River, 39 square miles were inundated. The three pumping stations which normally...